Being transplanted to San Diego from Boston was enough of an impetus for me to finally stake out a a claim in the blog-o-sphere. Here you'll find whatever strange thoughts meander out of my mind and into the ether.

Thursday, September 09, 2004

Having been here a little longer now, I'm starting to appreciate some of the differences beyond East and West being backwards to me. The latest thoughts revolve around the time difference. It's an adjustment to think of the folks back home as being three hours ahead. I was talking to my sister Sara-Anne yesterday as I drove home at 5:15. Her husband had just called to say he was leaving work. My first thought was that he was leaving early for a change. Well, if he had left at 5:15, that might have been true. However, he left at 8:15. Doh!

The time difference also makes the free calls after 9pm feature of my Verizon plan pretty useless. There's nobody I'd call that isn't in a time zone one or more hours away. Bleah.

There is a benefit to the time zone difference. At least there is for a sports junkie like me. I always know the score of the Sox game before I go to bed. Sometimes I know before I leave work! Even when they are out in Oakland, I don't have to stay up late to know they swept the A's - woo hoo!. I also don't have to stay up past midnight to watch night time football, like the Pats-Colts tonight. The vast benefit is lost on Lynnea, sadly.

Who is "briwei"?

I've been described before as a "very silly man". Granted, I was the one doing the describing, but I'm an excellent judge of character.
I find it hard to label myself in many other ways as the thing I identify with most is making people smile and laugh.
I have two great kids and a wonderful wife and you will likely see things about them crop up in these pages. Family is another big theme with me. I'll try not to be a shameless braggart about my family, but I do consider them pretty special.
I welcome intelligent discourse and even *gasp* opposing views. Please try to keep it civil, however.